{"id":473,"date":"2016-02-09T07:30:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T07:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikeuslan.com\/blog\/?p=473"},"modified":"2016-03-21T23:07:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T23:07:57","slug":"swell-of-the-year-about-to-go-off-in-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikeuslan.com\/blog\/swell-of-the-year-about-to-go-off-in-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"Swell of the year about to go off in Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Wednesday a very large swell is expected to arrive and last all day, at heights above 20 ft. This means the Waimea Bay in memory of Eddie Aikau contest is on. Not much can be said that hasn&#8217;t already been said but I did want to post a image of the storm that is sending us these waves.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_474\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikeuslan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bigswell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-474\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-474\" alt=\"big fetch aimed right at Hawaii \" src=\"http:\/\/www.mikeuslan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bigswell-300x197.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mikeuslan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bigswell-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mikeuslan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bigswell.jpg 481w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-474\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">big fetch aimed right at Hawaii<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The purple colors are hurricane force winds and the arrows show the direction of the energy. As you can see, Hawaii is in the the perfect location. Hawaii is far enough away to miss the actual storm and all it&#8217;s wind, but close enough to get ALL the energy.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested more in how weather and swell work, a fantastic explanation is already available at surfline.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfline.com\/surf-news\/the-mechanics-of-waimea-bay_51419\/\">THE MECHANICS OF WAIMEA BAY<\/a> is a 26 page graphic explanation of everything you ever wanted to know about how big waves work.<\/p>\n<p>Much Aloha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Wednesday a very large swell is expected to arrive and last all day, at heights above 20 ft. This means the Waimea Bay in memory of Eddie Aikau contest is on. Not much can be said that hasn&#8217;t already been said but I did want to post a image of the storm that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather","tag-high-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeuslan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeuslan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeuslan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeuslan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeuslan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeuslan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeuslan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeuslan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeuslan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeuslan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}